PACIFIC

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Alexandria VA: Time-Life Seafarers series 1980, 2nd printing. Allen tells the story of the European explorers of the Pacific Ocean, its islands and peoples, and the adventures and misadventures of Europeans in Oceania. No dust jacket (none issued), 4to in blue faux leather with color plate pasted down on front board, illustrated throughout with photos and drawings, map endpapers, bibliography, index, 176pp, one small crease in fabric of front board, contents as new, near Fine.
Price:
15.00 USD

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Pacific Maritime Studies series 1990. Volume 3 of Barratt's quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, based on annotated translations of eyewitness accounts. This volume describes Russia's activities in Vanuatu, Fiji, Tuvalu, and Anuta. Dust jacket, 8vo in blue cloth, 14 plates, notes, bibliography, name index, place and ship indices, 257pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
55.00 USD

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Pacific Maritime Studies series 1988. Volume 2 of Barratt's quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, based on annotated translations of eyewitness accounts. This volume describes Russia's activities in New Zealand, the Austral Islands, and Easter Island. Dust jacket, 8vo in blue cloth, 28 plates, notes, bibliography, name index, place index, 302pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
55.00 USD

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Pacific Maritime Studies series 1992. Volume 4 of Barratt's quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, based on annotated translations of eyewitness accounts. This volume describes Russia's activities in Tahiti and the Tuamotus, under the command of Otto von Kotzebue and F. F. Bellinghausen. Dust jacket, 8vo in blue cloth, 18 plates, 4 maps and tables, notes, bibliography, name index, place and ship index, 298pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
55.00 USD

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Pacific Maritime Studies series 1988. Volume 2 of Barratt's quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, based on annotated translations of eyewitness accounts. This volume describes Russia's activities in New Zealand, the Austral Islands, and Easter Island, all visited by observant officers and gentlemen of science in the early 1800s. Dust jacket, 8vo in blue cloth, 28 plates, notes, bibliography, name index, place and ship index, 302pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
35.00 USD

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Pacific Maritime Studies series 1988. Volume 2 of Barratt's quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, based on annotated translations of eyewitness accounts. This volume describes Russia's activities in New Zealand, the Austral Islands, and Easter Island, all visited by observant officers and gentlemen of science in the early 1800s. Dust jacket, 8vo in blue cloth, 28 plates, notes, bibliography, name index, place and ship index, 302pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
35.00 USD

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Pacific Maritime Studies series 1988. Volume 2 of Barratt's quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, based on annotated translations of eyewitness accounts. This volume describes Russia's activities in New Zealand, the Austral Islands, and Easter Island, all visited by observant officers and gentlemen of science in the early 1800s. Dust jacket, 8vo in blue cloth, 28 plates, notes, bibliography, name index, place and ship index, 302pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
30.00 USD

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Pacific Maritime Studies series 1988. Volume 2 of Barratt's quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, based on annotated translations of eyewitness accounts. This volume describes Russia's activities in New Zealand, the Austral Islands, and Easter Island, all visited by observant officers and gentlemen of science in the early 1800s. Dust jacket, 8vo in blue cloth, 28 plates, notes, bibliography, name index, place and ship index, 302pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
25.00 USD

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1978, 1st English edition. The Polynesian discovery and settlement of Easter Island based on old traditions and the recently revealed Manuscript E, translated from the German by Annelies. Dust jacket with price clipped, 8vo in white linen, transcription of Manuscript E, bibliography, index, 372, no marks, Fine.
Price:
30.00 USD

Portland OR: Western Imprints, Oregon Historical Society 1985. In the spring of 1775 as momentous events were brewing on the Atlantic Coast, a young naval officer with the Spanish expedition about to lay claim to the Oregon Country began his daily record of events. Dust jacket, 8vo halfbound in red cloth and yellow paper, translated and annotated by Herbert K. Beals, 33 maps and illustrations, index, 167pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
30.00 USD

Portland OR: Western Imprints, Oregon Historical Society 1985. In the spring of 1775 as momentous events were brewing on the Atlantic Coast, a young naval officer with the Spanish expedition about to lay claim to the Oregon Country began his daily record of events. Dust jacket, 8vo halfbound in red cloth and yellow paper, translated and annotated by Herbert K. Beals, 33 maps and illustrations, index, 167pp, as new, Fine.
Price:
30.00 USD

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1967. Louis Becke spent two decades roving the Pacific islands on many an island vessel; he recorded his adventures in these 22 semi-autobiographical tales portraying the beauty and violence of the tropics. Dust jacket, 8vo in black cloth, introduction by A. Grove Day, contents as new, 194pp, near Fine.
Price:
60.00 USD

New York: Wynwood Press 1989. A mysterious area in the Pacific known as the Dragon Sea is enthusiastically described by the investigator of the Bermuda Triangle, who reports and analyzes on the hundreds of vessels that sailed in the region and disappeared. Dust jacket, 8vo halfbound in black cloth and grey paper, map endpapers, 16pp of b&w plates, 208pp, new, Fine.
Price:
6.00 USD

New York: Wynwood Press 1989. A mysterious area in the Pacific known as the Dragon Sea is enthusiastically described by the investigator of the Bermuda Triangle, who reports and analyzes on the hundreds of vessels that sailed in the region and disappeared. Dust jacket, 8vo halfbound in black cloth and grey paper, map endpapers, 16pp of b&w plates, 208pp, new, Fine.
Price:
6.00 USD

New York: Wynwood Press 1989. A mysterious area in the Pacific known as the Dragon Sea is enthusiastically described by the investigator of the Bermuda Triangle, who reports and analyzes on the hundreds of vessels that sailed in the region and disappeared. Dust jacket, 8vo halfbound in black cloth and grey paper, map endpapers, 16pp of b&w plates, 208pp, new, Fine.
Price:
12.00 USD